[LUNA] Virtual Machines

[Andrew Burton]

Not to belabor a point, but Bob is right. We use vCenter at work, and it makes managing umpteen VM's a breeze. It's what you're after.
 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Nance <bob.nance at novationsys.com>
To: Linux Users of North Alabama mailing list <luna at lunagroup.us>
Sent: Sun, Dec 15, 2013 1:42 pm
Subject: Re: [LUNA] Virtual Machines


If you can get buy-in, get a license for VCenter. It's a mature product
with a good feature set, including the ability to migrate VMs while they
are still running from one host to another in a cluster.

-- 
 Bob Nance

 Novation Systems
 256-534-4620; 227





On 12/15/13 1:35 PM, "Michael W. Hall" <hallmw at att.net> wrote:

>Thanks for the input.  I will have to check that out.  I would like to
>convince people I work with we need this.  However, from past experience
>I would say that is slim to none.  I would like to keep our development
>VMs the same for everyone and be able to manage them.
>
>On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 18:12 +0000, Bob Nance wrote:
>> This is what VCenter does for you. It presents a list of configured VMs,
>> gives you a central place to manage them and lets you start and stop
>>them,
>> as needed. It will do this across multiple VM hosts, as well.
>> 
>> With a limited number of running VMs on a single host, you can use the
>>SMB
>> version of VCenter. If you want to control 4 or more hosts' inventories
>> and launch more than 4 guests on a host, you need to have the
>> higher-priced enterprise-licensed version.
>> 
>> If you want to do this for free, look at Convirt and openqrm. I have not
>> used these and make no claims. I just know that they do some of the
>> management and have a free version available. Red Hat is in the business
>> of virtualization, they should have a tool, too, that, with any luck,
>>will
>> be available in a Red Hat-released open source version for the many Red
>> Hat clones (Fedora, CentOS, etc.). Their paid tool is virt-manager
>>(catchy
>> nameŠ NOT!).
>> 
>
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